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Free cspan radio app. Earlier today facebooks david marcus testified before the Senate Banking committee to address concerns over the companys proposed Digital Currency. This is 2 hours and 20 minutes. This hearing will come to order. Today we will receive testimony from david marcus, head of libra at facebook. On may 9, senator brown and i sent a letter to facebook shortly after it was reported that the company was recruiting Financial Institutions and online merchants to help launch a cryptocurrency based Payment System using its social network. Our letter asked facebook for more information about how the system would work. Its access to and use of Consumer Financial information, and facebooks access to and use of information on individuals or groups of individuals in credit, insure, employment or housing. I appreciate facebooks response last week. Shortly after the letter was sent, facebook formally announce ds its intention to launch the Payment System libra and issued a white pape
Equities higher on renewed helps elsewhere for a potential u. S. china trade deal. That confidence fails to spark european market. President trump takes aim at Jerome Powell ahead of todays policy meeting saying he could consider demoting the central bank head. And trump also blasts ecb president mario draghi and his stimulus plans that sent the euro lower against the dollar. There are risks mainly because of brexit, also because of the trade conflict. Even the persistence of these risks are a risk in itself President Trump has increased pressure on the Federal Reserve to cut Interest Rates. Bloomberg reported the white house in february examined the possibility that the administration could demote Jerome Powell from his role as fed chair. The news agency reported that the white house legal review had made a case to replace powell as fed chair but said the move would be open to a legal challenge. Trump also hit out at the ecb after mario draghi hinted at further stimulus for the eurozo
Scientists say our oceans have hit their hottest recorded temperature largely because of Climate Change, with alarming implications for the planet. This week the average daily global Sea Surface Temperature hit almost 21 degrees celsius. Thats far above the average for the time of year and it beats the previous record set in 2016. The oceans are a vital regulator of the earths climate. Heres our climate editor, justin rowlatt. Theyve been taking measurements of Ocean Temperatures here in plymouth for more than a century. And for the last 50 or so years, theyve shown a slow but steady increase up about a third of a degree a decade. Have we got a reading for today yet, do you know . I heard them Say Something around 18 or 19, which is four Degrees Higher than it should be. Its been a similar pattern globally. Rising Sea Temperatures and increasing numbers of marine heatwaves. And it has just reached a new peak 20. 96 degrees celsius, the highest Global Average sea temperature ever record
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